Shoah [Paperback]

Claude Lanzmann (Author), Simone de Beauvoir (Foreword)

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The complete textspoken words and subtitlesof a recent documentary film on the Holocaust by French journalist and director Lanzmann is presented here in an unusual but grimly effective format. Doubtless seeing the film would be a vastly different experience, but the text carries a relentless strength and coherence of its own. Excerpts from interviews with a couple of dozen Jewish survivors, German officials and guards, Polish villagers and railway men, and contemporary historians in the United States, Israel, Germany, and Poland are juxtaposed, following the pattern of the film's scenes. The re sult is a powerful and unique impres sion of the Jewish tragedy drawn from the composite viewpoints of these radi cally different participants and observ ers. Highly recommended. James B. Street, Santa Cruz P.L., Cal.
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Text: English, French (translation) --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Pantheon (April 12, 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0394743296
• ISBN-13: 978-0394743295
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.8 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,416,989 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Witnesses to the Horror, April 25, 2006

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This review is from: Shoah (Paperback)

Lantzman talks with a wide variety of people , including survivors and researchers of the Shoah, but also ordinary Poles even anti-Semites. There may seem a certain incoherence in the presentation but what emerges valuable evidence of the greatest Evil Mankind has ever committed against Man.